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Building Reasoning Models from the Ground Up: A Full Video Course
I have written a lot about reasoning models here over the last two years on Ahead of AI, including a recent article on mechanisms to control reasoning effort levels in contemporary LLMs. Reasoning models are still as relevant as ever. In fa...
Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev
The recently released Jev AI model has been quite a cultural phenomenon in technical communities in the past 2 weeks.
While Jev aims to classify things, it’s easy to dismiss Jev as “just a classifier,” and my own view of Jev has evolved qu...
GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning
A lot has happened in the last few weeks. I am sure that OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is top of mind for everyone right now. In particular, thoughts on its performance, the looped transformer/recurrent depth aspects, and rumors that Astra is “hidin...
How Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text
I recently posted a Substack note about Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation. Since it’s such a popular topic and sparked such a lively discussion, I thought it might be interesting to go into a bit more detail when explaini...
Building an AI Text Detector From Scratch
An End-to-End Project With Dataset Construction, Model Training, Local Deployment, and RLVR
Substack recently launched its AI detector feature in the UI, which is super interesting.
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I'm an LLM research engineer 10+ years of experience in artificial intelligence. My expertise lies in AI & LLM research focusing on code-driven implementations. I am also the author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (amzn.to/4fqvn0D).
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